As we hear more stories of systems and services being compromised by malicious attackers, often simply referred to as ‘hackers’, we need to be aware of the basics of how these attacks work and what we should be looking out for in our daily tech lives.



We’re probably all fed up of the increasing complexity of logging into our favourite websites and apps, but the reality is that passwords, multi-factor authentication and now ‘passwordless’ ways of proving our online identity are more important than ever.



Talking with Sascz, we try to address some of the common questions around keeping ourselves safe in a digital world, as well as wincing at some of the painful examples we’ve seen of bad security habits that make even 16309, 12345, or 000 Destruct 0 look like strong password choices.



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Episode Links




Alexander (Sascz) Hermann: Website | Twitter



Time-based one-time password (TOTP – WikiPedia



You Should be Afraid of SIM Swaps – Malicious Life



iCloud Hide My Email



Fastmail Masked Email



Free Password Generator by 1Password



Password Managers

1Password



BitWarden



KeePass



iCloud Keychain





WSJ Journal Article: Criminals Use iPhones To Steal Digital Lives



Password Entropy: The Value of Unpredictable Passwords (Okta)



About the Security of Passkeys (Apple)



Windows Hello




Chapter Times




00:00:04: Introductions



00:02:16: AFFILIATE PROMO: Linode



00:03:12: Guest Intro – Alexander



00:08:27: An Old Problem



00:11:51: Vulnerabilities



00:15:10: Social Engineering



00:26:38: Being Mindful of Social Media Posts



00:31:44: Software Updates



00:36:47: Endpoint Security



00:40:15: Protecting the Average User

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